Chapter 2 Letters from Far Away

"Si'er, this morning the post office kept calling home, asking me if I was Lin Changqing, saying that there was a letter, but there was no specific address, just a phone call, the post office did not deliver, let us go and get it ourselves."

"Really? Is there anyone still writing letters these days? Just a phone call and you're done" Put down the violin, I'm also a special difference.

"It was sent by Inner Mongolia, called Bart."

Bart, just these two words instantly pulled me back to the distant prairie, leaving Inner Mongolia for almost 20 years, there are still people who remember me, at that time I skin test, Bart is Mongolian, since he was a child, he has great strength, and he has not contributed less to the work of uncovering the tiles in the house, I will give him the wind below, and the sentence I remember the most is "Bart, do you eat mushrooms?" "That kid is greedy, I'm greedy, we both look at who's house on the roof of the house every day to dry mushrooms, and then I instigated Bart to go up to pick other people's mushrooms, for this, Bart was beaten a lot, but this kid is also righteous enough, as soon as people catch him and open his mouth, he screams, "Brother Ma let me take it" for this matter, I also beat it a lot.

"I know, Uncle Zhou, I'll get it in the afternoon."

This Bart is also interesting enough, I live in Hankou Bart sent me to Wuchang, I really thank him for the second uncle, I don't know how much the fee is, along the way I was thinking about what Bart wrote to me for, when I was 10 years old, I left Inner Mongolia for almost 20 years, things are not people, I have been back twice over the years, the original neighborhood has long moved away, I heard that a new source of minerals has been discovered in Nanyuan, and these generations of people who have followed the coal mining company have also migrated to Manchuria one after another, and are getting farther and farther away from Hohe.

I finally drove to Fruit Lake all the way to the fruit lake, and the moment I watched the staff take out the envelope, my heart fluttered faintly, who is not homesick? It's been almost 20 years, the first time someone from my hometown contacted me, nervous and excited so that I had to light a cigarette to calm my mood, I found a clean step at the door of the post and quickly sat down, and couldn't wait to tear the envelope carefully, for fear of tearing a small corner of the letter inside.

"Little fourth brother, I'm Bart, remember? It was when I was a child and I stole mushrooms with you, I haven't seen you for many years, I found a lot of people to ask for your contact information, I only know that you went to the south, and then I went to Manchuria to find your family on the side of Li Ma, said that you went to Wuhan, and came back for a year, the person who took you away left a landline for her, this is a letter, I called you before, and no one answered after calling a few times, and then I thought about writing a letter to you, try your luck.

After you left Hohe, Liuzi and Yanzi also went to Manchuria in a few years, and they talked about you when they left, and now that you have grown up, I also feel that Inner Mongolia is too depressing for you, and it is good to go to the south, I saw on TV that there are many high-rise buildings in the south, and the little girl is also handsome, but the fish in the river is a little too small, not as good as our big Maha.

Little fourth brother, I won't tell you that this letter is actually looking for you urgently, don't complain that I have something to contact you, I really don't know what to do, do you remember Kangbao? It's the little man who always wears big pants and follows us when I was a child, when the coal and power company divided the index, we didn't score, and then I went to Manchuria to work for two years, it was too bitter, I ran back, Kang Bao followed the swallow and they did it together for a few years and felt bored, said it was better to come back to raise cattle to make money, so they came to Hailar to find me, want to be with me, we are both Mongolians, and the pasture is cheap, and the bitterness is a little bitter, but in recent years, the drought in Inner Mongolia has not rained year after year, and the price of forage has risen a lot, although the harvest is not good, But we didn't lose anything.

At the beginning of this year, the white-haired wind here hung badly, blowing down the bullpen, running two cows, Kang Bao waited for the wind to stop and followed the traces to find the cow, until the evening did not come back, he came back with the devil, kept telling me to look at the golden mountain, looked at the golden mountain, I asked him where the golden mountain was, he would tell me that he was in the field of Keshik, and he would tell me that he was in the eternal heaven, and he would take me to go with him tomorrow, I said that he was enchanted and had to go to the doctor, and he disappeared in the morning.

After calling the police, many policemen searched for a whole week, and they could only confirm that Kangbao's horseshoe prints did disappear in the direction of Keshik, but there are no mountains there, I have been there many times, and later the police characterized it as a missing person, and said that it was eaten by the yellow wolf, but I know too well, we are all children of the grassland, even if we can't find our way back, it is absolutely no problem to survive in the grassland, Kangbao can't grow grass, but grazing is very powerful, and it is too impossible for him to get lost, let alone let the yellow wolf eat, And when he came back that day, it was like losing his soul, and he kept talking about Jinshan Jinshan.

Kang Bao's mother knows that he has fallen ill in this matter, and he has wanted to find a short time several times, little fourth brother, I really can't help it, I heard Liu Zi say, your family has been a gentleman who has watched feng shui for generations, your grandfather also gave Liu Zi's family a house, I am now desperate, little fourth brother, can you help me, even if Kang Bao is dead, I have to find his ashes back.

Help my little fourth brother, I hope Changshengtian can bring this letter to you and help me. ”

I sat on the stairs and watched the letter for a long time, until the cigarette burned my hand before I reacted, the past scenes flashed in front of me again and again, I could feel the despair and fear of Bart, and I could also feel the heart-rending pain of the Kang Bao family, but Feng Shui, all my pain came from it, I gasped heavily, and stopped the car to go back to Hankow.

"Brother, did you get the letter back?" Uncle Zhou's daughter saw me coming home and hurriedly ran over.

"Well, I've got it back."

"What's written, do you recognize that Bart?" Looking at her concerned eyes, I couldn't help but feel warm in my heart, and touched Zhou Yan's head dotingly.

"Little sister, brother will go to the house to sit for a while, and I will come out and tell you later" I barely squeezed out a smile.

"You're talking about it right here!"

"Xiaoyan, if your brother has something, you can wait" Uncle Zhou saw that my expression was not right, and interrupted Zhou Yan.

"Si'er, tell your uncle if you have something."

"Well, I'm fine, don't worry."

Back in the house, I took out the small box with thick dust from under the bed, and slowly opened it, "Wind and Water", I took it out with a slight tremble.

"Si'er, the family can't live with you, if you don't look at feng shui in the future, if you look at feng shui, remember, all things have spirits, one eliminates the other, our Lin family has never done good and not evil, don't be blinded by this world."

Grandpa's words came back to me again and again.

"Is there a trade-off? Grandpa, if I go, will it be eliminated or will it be long? ”

If this feng shui can really save people, then I am willing to try it once.

I gently wiped the floating ash off "Wind and Water", and the book that I had read countless times seemed to have life in an instant and beat again in my hand, and I stared at it for a long time and took out my phone.

"Who?"

"Bart, do you eat mushrooms?"